as in complains
to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely
always inveighing against the high property taxes that they were forced to pay
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If he had been forced to stick with readily available materials, Rashid complains, the deck behind the house would have been green or brown.
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The document complains about trade, customs officers, juryless courts, and judges’ salaries.
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Pig screams were no different from our screams.
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Nothing screams summer like nautical stripes.
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Jessie whines about the good old days all the time — how fun is that?
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Aronimink put the world’s best golfers in a vice this week and squeezed the whines right out of them.
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“Inveighs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inveighs. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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